----------------------------------------------------------Although most evolutionary computation techniques are designed togenerate specific solutions to a given instance of a problem, someof these techniques can be explored to solve more generic problems.The main objective of this workshop is to discuss evolutionarycomputation methods for generating generic algorithms and/orheuristics. These methods have the advantage of producing solutionsthat are applicable to any instance of a problem domain, insteadof a solution specifically produced for a single instance of the problem.The areas of application of these methods may include, for instance,data mining, machine learning, optimization, bioinformatics,image processing, economics, etc.

The workshop welcomes original submissions on all aspects of EvolutionaryComputation for Designing Generic Algorithms, which include (but arenot limited to) the following topics and themes:

- Evolutionary algorithms for designing generic combinatorialoptimization algorithms or heuristics- Evolutionary algorithms for designing generic machine learning algorithmsor heuristics- Evolutionary algorithms for designing generic function optimization- Evolutionary algorithms for designing generic algorithms or heuristicsfor bioinformatics- (Meta-level) evolutionary algorithms for designing other (base-level)evolutionary algorithms- Empirical comparison of different hyper-heuristics- Theoretical analyses of hyper-heuristics- Automatic selection of algorithms' building blocks as a preprocessing stepfor the use of hyper-heuristics- Analysis of the trade-off between generality and effectiveness of differentheuristics algorithms or heuristics produced by hyper-heuristics- Real-world applications of hyper-heuristics

Submitted papers should follow the ACM format, and not exceed 8 pages.Please see the GECCO 2011 information for authors for further details.However, note that the review process of the workshop is not double-blind.Hence, authors' information should appear in the paper.All accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and appear in theGECCO workshop volume. Proceedings of the workshop will be published onCD-ROM, and distributed at the conference.

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